by Michael Timm Pending review of an environmental audit and federal approval, developers plan to build a 470-bed student apartment building on a triangle of land immediately north of North Avenue and west of the Milwaukee River, currently owned by Milwaukee County. This land would be swapped for a slice of privately owned land vital […]
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Caution: Drama Xing Invisible Theatre strikes Milwaukee crosswalks
Story and photo by Jason Hart You stop at a red light. At opposite curbs stand a man and a woman, with their noses buried in books. They begin to cross. They dont look up. They collide with each other, right in front of your car, dropping their books onto the pavement. They are nervous, […]
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Gildas Club Lifts Spirits
by Jean Scherwenka When Saturday Night Live comedian Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, her Milwaukee native husband Gene Wilder and her cancer therapist Joanna Bull committed to making one of Radners dreams come true a community where people touched by cancer could benefit from the kinds of emotional and social support […]
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Cream City Collectives Update
The free school, infoshop, and community space announced in an article in the January Currents has been very busy during the last two weeks. The initial meeting at the Polish Falcon on January 8 drew a crowd of about fifty people. It was organized as an open forum to discuss what people would like to […]
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Kindness At The Milwaukee School Of Massage
by Mary Vuk, photos by Kurt Johnson Wanda Beals believes that massage is a form of kindness. Beals is the owner and director of the Milwaukee School of Massage, located at 830 E. Chambers. Kindness is highly underrated. I think we need to be much more kind with one another. Its a challenge in this […]
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